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Políticas del lenguaje y prácticas de escritura en la comunicación científico-académica

Pablo von Stecher, Lucía Céspedes

El dossier que aquí presentamos tuvo su planteo original en el marco de un proyecto de investigación que aborda una serie de problemáticas sobre el uso de lenguas en los distintos géneros discursivos dedicados a la difusión de la ciencia en Argentina entre mediados del siglo XX y la actualidad; y sobre las tensiones que, entre lengua y soberanía, tuvieron y tienen lugar en los debates sobre la publicación científica. Una discusión central de este proyecto se focalizó en el impacto que ejercen, en términos lingüísticos y discursivos, las dinámicas actuales de publicación y evaluación académica —moldeadas mayormente sobre criterios cuantitativos e índices bibliométricos— para la formulación de artículos de investigación. El fenómeno incide tanto en las decisiones de los autores y autoras como en los criterios editoriales de las revistas especializadas.

Representations of the value of different languages for the sciences

Roberto Bein — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:58:03 +0000

On the basis of the practice of translation and contrastive linguistics, I first of all expose one of the mechanisms that can contribute to the differential valuation of languages for their use in the sciences: their linguistic conformation. That is to say that, certainly without denying them, I do not appeal, in principle, to issues such as linguistic imperialism, nor to the denunciation of indexing mechanisms in the almost exclusive hands of Clarivate Analytics, nor to the H factor for measuring the impact of publications, but I use elements of applied linguistics. To this end I justify this mechanism with the analysis of translation problems such as polysemy, zero equivalence (Kutz, 1982) and variation in terminology (Kuguel, 2010), examples of language contrasts from the current initiated by Lado in 1957, especially with regard to verbs with particles and the existence or non-existence of other phenomena (aorist-preterite imperfect difference, Weinrich, 1964; compounds by parataxis or with prepositions; ser-estar distinction, etc.). I then complement this perspective with a glottopolitical view: I use the concept of sociolinguistic representations (among others, Boyer, 1991, Narvaja de Arnoux and del Valle, 2010) and the postulation of languages as fetish (Bein, 2005), to show that these particular features of languages and the concomitant translation techniques feed or undermine their exchange value (Bochmann-Seiler, 2010) in concrete socio-economic circumstances.

Keywords: languages of the sciences - differential valuation - linguistic motivations - language representations - exchange value

Scientific impact and the monopoly of English: challenges for linguistic diversity

Claudio França, Kyria Rebeca Finardi — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:58:13 +0000

This study examines the relationship between the language of publication and scientific impact, focusing on the number of citations received by articles authored by researchers from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) on the internationalization of higher education. The research data stems from the analysis of the most cited works in three bibliographic databases of Scopus, WoS and Lens, discussing whether the current dynamics of scientific internationalization have effectively expanded international dialogues or, conversely, reinforced the hegemony of English and central countries. This dynamic promotes the adoption of a habitus among researchers, encouraging the use of a common language, English, for the dissemination of research outcomes, ultimately restricting and devaluing other languages and academic perspectives. Based on the collected data and analyzed, it is concluded that while publishing in English increases visibility and scientific impact, it also tends to perpetuate geopolitical inequalities in the scientific field, where knowledge produced in peripheric countries must conform to standards dictated by (and for) central countries so as to gain recognition. This reality places LAC researchers in a dilemma: to adopt English to achieve greater visibility or to prioritize local languages to guarantee social and local impact and also to preserve epistemological and cultural diversity.

Language Policies in the Institutional Management of Science and Technology: The Case of Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham

Luciana Verdún, Mara Glozman , Juan Pedrosa, Victoria Quiroga — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:58:24 +0000

The article presents the results of a study on the dimensions of language policy present in the Science and Technology (S&T) management tools developed at Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham (UNAHUR). To this end, it addresses a corpus composed of institutional documents, which were not created as political-linguistic instruments but that allow the identification of political orientations or determinations regarding language in a broad sense, encompassing references to languages, archives, and discursive and writing practices within UNAHUR’s management of S&T. In particular, the analysis connects metalinguistic utterances with conceptions of science, technology, research, and knowledge woven throughout the corpus, considering the productive, political-pedagogical, social, and historical conditions of the institution. Through a case study, the paper examines the productivity of approaching these tools from a perspective that integrates language policies and conditions of discourse production. This article aims to circulate knowledge that could be productive both for training in scientific practice and for potential political-linguistic interventions in R&D&i management areas.

Limits and challenges of large language models for academic and scientific writing: a critical review based on “expert use”

Victoria Scotto — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:58:33 +0000

Since 2022, the scientific world has acknowledged the impact of the massification of ChatGPT. Its use, both in scientific and academic contexts, has raised questions about theoretical problems such as the authorship of works written at least partially with this technology, and practical problems, such as the lack of adaptation of the texts to academic genres. The present article is an organized presentation of the problems and limits of the use of large language models in academic and scientific contexts. It is based on the analysis of twenty scientific papers that report systematic analysis of data provided by surveys or by systemic literature review. We chose to divide the contexts of use based on the criterion of expert use, which is defined by the convergence of a complete academic literacy and the broad domain of the field about which the chatbot is being inquired.

We will address the untrained use and some of its problematic expressions, and we will also analyse the challenges presented by texts produced by chatbots that appear even in the presence of expert use: lack of traceability and biases, hallucinations, parroting, plagiarism, weak argumentative development and inconsistent, incoherent and contradictory expositions.

Writing and knowledge production in the arts: interventions of Journal of Artistic Research in the regulation of the academic paper

Sylvia Nogueira — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:58:42 +0000

The critical revision of writing norms of academic discourse has a particular development in communities of knowledge production linked to artistic practices. Journals specialized in artistic research regulate the writing they should deploy in order to be incorporated without alienation to indexed publications. From a broad glottopolitical perspective, this paper analyzes social representations of writing in prominent discourses of European polemics on artistic research, especially relevant because of their globalizing politics. As a way of contextualizing the analysis, we deal with Manifesto of Artistic Research (2020), a brief book representative of a positioning with which Journal of Artistic Research, a peer-reviewed specialized journal supported by a transnational alliance of institutions from arts fields, argues. The article focuses on the guidelines for authors and the editorials of the 34 issues published by JAR between 2011 and 2024. The aim of the paper is to describe JAR interventions in the traditional regulation of the genre journal article. It highlights how JAR argues for the alternative genre “exposition of [artistic] practice as research” and how social representations about writing vary as the journal project becomes established.

Plurilingual Practices in Scientific Production

Laura Colombo — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:58:50 +0000

In this paper I propose, from a narrative approach to research, an autoethnographic exploration focusing on the plurilingual practices that mark the constant learning of academic literacies. I try, at the same time, to foreground those experiences and conditions that shaped and continue shaping me as a writer, trying to highlight the linguistic but also geographical, research, epistemological and disciplinary paths that come into tension when enacting those practices related to doing and writing science. Rather than providing answers, the aim of this paper is to try out some answers and continue to generate questions that help us to make visible and revalue those interstitial spaces that, when reconfigured and transited in a certain way, can help to challenge monolithic and prescriptive conceptions of languages and sciences.

Are Brazilians Latin Americans? A glottopolitical analysis of the question

Glenda Heller Cáceres, Gabriel Camargo Onseko — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:58:58 +0000

Historically, both friendly and conflictual relations have been established between Brazil and other Latin American countries. Considering these relations, it is important to reflect on how they manifest for Brazilians and are incorporated into their subjectivities. Thus, this study offers reflections on the Brazilian imagination regarding the sense of belonging to Latin America. Situated within the field of glotopolitics, this work consists of a discursive analysis of a corpus built from user comments on a social media platform in response to audiovisual content it made available, which asserts that “Brazilians do not recognize themselves as Latin Americans.” The analysis allows for an understanding that, in this case, Brazilian identity is asserted in antagonism to Latin American identity and is based on an ideology that negatively evaluates the social group associated with it. In this relationship, linguistic ties acquire a central role.

Heteróclito y multiforme: debates y propuestas para analizar discursos, del Círculo de Análisis de Lenguaje en Uso (CALU)

Daniela Iannini — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:59:06 +0000